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11 gay books every homosexual man should read, at least once
By Emen8, updated 2 months ago in Lifestyle / Entertainment
Whether your interest is in complex gay characters or historically poignant homosexual love stories, here are eleven gay books every homosexual man should read, at least once.
Here are some of the best gay books for anyone looking to lose themselves in beautifully crafted stories. This list of gay books contains some of the stories that aide shape our understandings of the gay experience, our history, our loves and our families. If you have already read them all, please get in stroke, I think we may be soulmates. While you&#;re at it you can also check out our 6 gay fantasy novels to add to your reading list.
1. Call Me by Your Name, Andre Aciman
Many will comprehend the gorgeous film by the same title, starring Timothée Chalamet, the king of the vertical twinks. Well, the book it’s based on, written by the talented Andre Aciman, is equally captivating. For those unfamiliar, the novel follows year-old Elio Pearlman’s summer love affair with his father’s PhD stu
In thrillers of the past, if queer characters were mentioned at all, they were usually delegated to victims or villains. But in the last several years, mainstream publishers own finally let LGBTQIA+ authors have a voice in the thriller genre, with queer main characters in uniquely queer, bone-chilling situations.
In my own thriller, So Happy for You, Robin is a queer academic who reluctantly agrees to be the maid of honor for her leading friend, Ellie, who’d destroy for the perfect wedding—literally. It highlights the absurdity of the wedding industrial complex and the intricacies of female friendship between someone who’s queer and someone’s who’s cishet.
When I started writing So Joyful for You, I was so grateful there were recent queer thrillers I could turn to for research, and since writing the book I’ve been happy to read even more. The following list isn’t made up of all thrillers, technically—some are more mystery or crime reads—but they’re all guaranteed to keep you up at night!
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
My elevator pitch for this one is usually “gay
(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the late s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best woman loving woman and gay novels in the delayed s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and queer literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle&#;s Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Peck of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
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